could try this link I don't know ether they sell to public
www.adelaide.edu.au/animal_services/products/price-productshtm
they sell all types of lab rats the so called "super rat" is a breed called Zucker which have faulty leptin receptors which causes the rat not to know when they are full therefore they eat non stop causing obesity I think there is a mis-understanding am not quite sure which breed are producing the large litters hope this helps
Zucker rats are the opposite of super rats (not that there is actually such a thing as a 'super rat' anyway). Zucker rats are deliberately bred because they are sickly and can be used in medical research. You'd never in a pink fit want to breed them as reptile food.
Someone decided to sell some prolific mice as 'supermice' to make some extra money. Other people saw the marketting power of such a name and decided to cash in (amusingly they probably didn't make more than about $50 out of it anyway :lol: ), so now lots of different lines of mice get called supermice, and in a nutshell, they're not really the amazing creatures people hope for them to be. If they were, if there was a supermouse which was so much better, none of us would bother with anything else. Having said that, there are some very prolific mice which under the right conditions will average close to 20 babies per litter. Outside stable laboratory conditions you're often better off with 'normal' mice anyway. Many lines of lab mice and rats do very poorly if temperatures fluctuate much outside of standard laboratory conditions. Some lab strains also have poor immune systems which don't cope well outside a sterile laboratory environment.
People sometimes talk about 'super rats' because hey, if there are super mice there must be super rats too, right? There are hundreds of different lines of lab rats and mice. If any rat was going to be called a super rat it would probably be the Wistar, these grow huge, they grow quickly, they have lots of babies, which sounds great, but they're very fatty and probably not too good for your reptiles. About 10 years ago I had someone supplying me with these things, they were averaging almost a kg each and well over a kg wasn't unusual. My Carpets grew huge on those things! :lol:
My rats produce about 15 babies per litter on average, they have litters often and they do it in a range of temperatures. They have excellent immune systems and I'm very happy with them. They're not lab rats and I wouldn't want lab rats. We also have a range of colours, patterns and coat types in our rats, which keeps us amused :lol:
My mice are pretty good, but I'm not quite satisfied with them. I have three different lines, but I think I can do better than any of them. Our best mice produce litters very frequently, our largest litters are close to 20, but they're not consistent.
There are countless lines of rats and mice, don't be fooled into thinking there is one particular line of 'super rat' which is universally better for everyone in all situations and for all applications. Get rats from different sources, try them out and when you find a line which works for you, stick to it.
Alternatively...
/me jumps on the bandwagon...
I have these fully sick, totally awesome, revolutionary super dooper rats. $50 each, you'll be able to get incredible results from them and save yourself heaps of time and money. Wow! You'd be a fool to miss out, nay, a perverted, unethical, sex-offending fool with bad taste in clothes, cars and wine. You don't want that, do you? Of course you don't, so send your money over!
/me jumps off the bandwagon.
(for many, sarcasm seems impossible to detect, and even with this disclaimer I'll be accused of trying to rip people off, but for what it's worth, I'm joking, really).